Posts Tagged ‘Writing’
Record UK book sales in 2012
Despite all the financial doom and gloom over the last few years, British publishers seem to be bucking the trend as they have reported record sales in 2012. According to this article on the BBC Website, total spending on books (both printed and digital form) rose to £3.3bn in 2012. That represents a 4% increase […]
Filed under: E-Book, General, Reading, Writing | 33 Comments
Tags: BBC, E-book, Kindle, Paperback, photography, Publishing, Reading, Writing
An A to Z Wrap-up
Wow, what a month. It passed by in a blur and I could have slept for a week after posting my letter Z post last Tuesday. Well, if work didn’t insist on me going in to the office everyday. Now the dust has settled, I thought I’d do a wrap-up post re my first experience […]
Filed under: A to Z Blogging Challenge, Writing | 40 Comments
Tags: A to Z Challenge, castleton, Kittens, photography, putteney bridge, Reading, symonds yat, Writing
In the Zone
We made it! This is the last day of April and the last letter of the alphabet, which means the final post in the 2013 A to Z Challenge. Again, a big thank you to the challenge founder, Arlee Bird, I have had a blast this month. Originally, I planned on writing a lame post […]
Filed under: A to Z Blogging Challenge, Writing | 49 Comments
Tags: A to Z Challenge, cats, NaNoWriMo, photography, Reading, Writing, Z
Yesterdays
This is the penultimate post of the 2013 A to Z Challenge. After this, just one more to go! Yesterdays is the title of the post and I’m talking about flashbacks. One school of thought is that you should never start your novel with a flashback. I’ve read this in a number of places recently […]
Filed under: A to Z Blogging Challenge, Writing | 35 Comments
Tags: A to Z Challenge, Flashbacks, photography, Reading, United States, Writing, Yesterday, Yosemite National Park
X-Ray your Story
We have reached the more interesting letters of the alphabet. Today is the dreaded X. Arguably the most difficult letter to blog about from a writing point of view. I had the idea for this post several months ago. A week or so after I finished writing the first draft of A Scream in the […]
Filed under: A to Z Blogging Challenge, Writing | 23 Comments
Tags: A to Z Challenge, photography, Reading, Writers Resources, Writing, X-ray
Writing Groups
They say that writing is a lonely occupation. Not wrong are they? There are times in your writing life that you need to sit and talk with other writers. Like anything you’re interested in, you talk to your friends or your family. People who share a passion for the same things as you are going […]
Filed under: A to Z Blogging Challenge, Writing | 38 Comments
Tags: A to Z Challenge, Open University, photography, Reading, Warwick Castle, Writing, Writing circle, Writing Groups
Validation
A couple of months ago, I was scrolling through the WordPress reader and a blog caught my eye. As they do. The title of the post was something like “Finished, time to publish” and I clicked to check it out. The upshot of the post was they had just finished the draft of their book, […]
Filed under: A to Z Blogging Challenge, Writing | 46 Comments
Tags: A to Z Challenge, Beta reader, Manuscript, photography, Reading, Writing
Understanding Trace Evidence
This is the last post in my Forensics series for this A to Z Challenge. I’ve had fun with these and I hope they’ve helped you identify some elements of plot you could include in your novels, whether they be in the crime genre or not. We’ve already covered part of Trace Evidence in previous […]
Filed under: A to Z Blogging Challenge, Writing | 17 Comments
Tags: A to Z Challenge, Crime, Dr Edmond locard, Forensic science, photography, Reading, Trace Evidence, Universal Studios, Writing
For the T post of the A to Z Challenge, I had to post about Twitter. Some people LOVE Twitter. Some HATE it. I’m in the love-it camp. I’ve been addicted to Twitter in the past and it can be a MAJOR time suck, but I’ve worked out how to be active without it compromising my writing […]
Filed under: A to Z Blogging Challenge, Writing | 38 Comments
Tags: A to Z Challenge, Blog, Facebook, photography, Reading, social network, Twitter, Want more Twitter followers?, Writing
Scrivener
For years I’d heard about this software programme that would change the way I approached my writing. I downloaded the trial and it seemed complicated at first, but I read through the tutorial and decided last August to use it for Camp NaNo. I thought I would use the competition and a new project as […]
Filed under: A to Z Blogging Challenge, Writing | 62 Comments
Tags: A to Z Challenge, Microsoft Word, photography, Reading, Scrivener, Scrivener Project, Sunsets, Writer Resources, Writing
